"When awake many fortuitous circumstances may happen to perplex and discompose us; but when the body is laid asleep, and the mind disencumbered of its load, we think and act with additional force--nothing then obstructs our activity or retards our promised bliss."
— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)
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Place of Publication
Calcutta
Publisher
Printed by Joseph Cooper
Date
November 19, 1793
Metaphor
"When awake many fortuitous circumstances may happen to perplex and discompose us; but when the body is laid asleep, and the mind disencumbered of its load, we think and act with additional force--nothing then obstructs our activity or retards our promised bliss."
Metaphor in Context
The sensations of anticipated pleasure, are never felt with so much gratification as in our dreams; in our waking thoughts they excite joy, but in the still hour of slumber, they are productive of superlative happiness:--when awake many fortuitous circumstances may happen to perplex and discompose us; but when the body is laid asleep, and the mind disencumbered of its load, we think and act with additional force--nothing then obstructs our activity or retards our promised bliss.--The mind, freed from her weighty companion, roams at large through the regions of fancy; and at once conceives and invents, beautifies and illustrates, amplifies and adorns.
(p. 58)
(p. 58)
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Provenance
Searching in ECCO
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1795, 1799).
See The Indian Observer. By the Late Hugh Boyd, Esq. and Others. Compiled by Mr. Bone. (Calcutta: Printed by Joseph Cooper, 1795). <Link to ESTC>
See The Indian Observer. By the Late Hugh Boyd, Esq. and Others. Compiled by Mr. Bone. (Calcutta: Printed by Joseph Cooper, 1795). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
